Sergio, I heard one guy call that heat shrink tube a corrosion catcher or something like that. Showed how the said got under that heat shrink and made a huge mess and screwed up the cable. Thanks, that's another thing I wanted to ask, but forgot.

I guess someone can always figure out a way to do the job wrong, but if You look at what a professional crimp looks like on a closed end lug, there is no place for corrosion to develop or enter the connector.

The adhesive in the heat shrinking tube will seal it and keep moisture from entering the cable.

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We usually update the cables for more power so with so much invested you want as good of connections as you can afford. No matter how good cables you have you still need to do your maintenance and keep them clean as batteries gets older they off gases more and seems at this time in the batteries life is when the issues happen. Think about it, we upgrade about double the amperage through the same size lug at the connection, there isn't any more surface area to transfer that current so yes the better the connection and lugs the less chance of issues.

I prefer the heavy walled Tinned Copper closed end lugs, they are more expensive but will slow corrosion, not stop it completely.

It is also a good practice to always keep some kind of anti-corrosion product on the battery posts and cable ends for extra protection.

Actually that is exactly opposite of the truth. Pure copper lugs are roughly 3 times more expensive than the tinned counterpart. The "tinned" lugs have a lower copper content and thus are cheaper to make. A 2AWG tinned lug is about .34 when bought in quantity, the same lug in pure copper is nearly 1$

I have also seen the person on ebay who claims heat shrink is a corrosion catcher, he is obviously not very good at what he does. Heat shrink is what keeps it out. If it was a corrosion catcher, then insulated cable would be the biggest corrosion catcher in the world.

As to making cables, by the time you get everything together you could buy a set done for you. The average Precedent set for the batteries is less than $40.

Yea I never heard of that one, I have found cheap tin plated lugs closed ended but I can't remember where, there was a reason why I didn't buy them.
Also the sets Scotty sells is of the highest quality I've seen and he has documentation to back it up.
I'm personally looking to buy a better crimp tool because of exactly what Sergio said earlier in this thread, after I made a set with the cheap tool it was very difficult to make a crimp that would hold. The lugs were expensive, I had to search around and the cheap ones had a red flag on them from what I remember I just don't remember exactly what I found out about them. After looking at my stock lugs and the new ones they do have a slightly larger surface area, this is important to make sure you get full contact to the battery, this is the point where cheap will cause issues for sure.